Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-24
LIVE STOCK NOTES.
The CaHse OF the Heavy Shipments Of
lmmaiure Beef Cattle TO the
Market the Past Years

A Scrub Male is Improbable to the Breed
er anc to tho Community in which
the Animal Lives.
Mitchell Bros. yesterday sent carload
Of horses to Shreveport.
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r. E. Maddox & Co. shipped q carload
of mules TO Shreveport from Fort Worth.
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1. Mr.. W. E. Cobb Of Decatur, a stock
nan OF prominen e, WAS in Fort Worth
yesterday.
a couple Of light grade mich cows
were sent by R. E. Maddox & Co. to Ell
P4so last evening.
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A car OF horses from Lsmpssss, shipped
by R o. Scott, and one from Temple to
Memphis, by J. N. Taft, passed through
the city yesterday.
Ten carloads of fGe beef cattle shipped
by the Rio Grsnde Cattle Company to chi
cago were hsnGled ct the Texas and Pacific
stock yards in Fort Worth yesterday.
New Orleans, in q quiet way, is con-
Stunning great many of Texas beef cat
tie these days, and South Texas rsisers
find that very profitable market for
some grades OF their etock.
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The season for purchs sing breeding
stock is considered closed now. Texas
raisers do not let the weather interfere
with their business much, and it is eX-
pected that in six weeks the demand for
breeding cattle will be as heavy as ever.
Mr.. Il. j. Wilson, prominent Fort
Worth stockman, went up the Fort Worth
and Denver to locate and obtain some
ranch property, Rhereon he will go into
mule raising On an extensive scale. He
proposes to stock the ranch with good
mares and jacks, and breed good class
of mules. 1t is Gn induoitabIe fact that
this is as good line Of the live stock
trade as man can have his money in
these days.
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A scrub male is Improbable not only to
the breeder but to the community in
which ne lives. Consequently the Times
Democrat would suggest that in this DAY
OF cheap and abundant fine stock, there
should be law fOrbidding the use Of
scrub males for breeding purposes. It IS
not exactly q crime, but it is undoubtedly
very near to it. Farmers Alliances, eg
ricultural societies, Oranges and Wheels
would, 1t is thought, be justified in ex-
Guiding from membership any person who
would, in defiance Of public opinion, per-
sist in breeding from scrub males OF any
and all kinds.
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1t has been noticed aIl through the past
year that cattle we're being put on the
market at the National Stock Yards
st st. Louis in exit sordinary quantities
even at the remarkably low prices they
could be sold fer s0d that this stock WAS
being shipped in regardless Gifts quality IS
beet. Up TO the fall of last year il mad
been the rule among stockmen TO snip 10
cattle TO market Younger than four-yesr-
old steers. Last fall few COWS and
calves were sent to the stock yards and
sold, but the stockmen who did it were
severely criticised and gave as an explain
alton that the ranges were Overstocked
and the oTerplus had 10 be showed Of.
Early this year the stoCkmen began to
ship IN calves, yearlIng5 and COWS in such
quantities as TO make It evident that some
thing waas WrGDg. In 1886 there were
PSI, 000ssSattl9 shipped TO and sold ST
q khasI9sst 81. Louis stock ysrds, mostly
tbeef csttIe. For the first ten months in
1887 there were 10, 600 more cattle sold
there than IN the whole Of last year, and
the c2ttle inspectors at the yards say that
half Of these were cattle that ordinarily
should not hsve been put on the market
and would not have been sent eff the
range two years ego. The cause Of this
slaughter CO cattle unfit for marketing
hiss been in some measure due to previous
overstockiRg of ranges, but the shipment
Of immature beef cattle to the market
puzzled the GIobe-Democrat till it
evolved the following il G recent issue:
This year has plunged into great distress
most Of the small stock
( owners and 8 great many
of the larger ones. Cattle losses
have been heavy through badiwesther, snd
the OVeTcroWding Of the range; stock has
lbeen depreciating in value and the banks
.Eare pressing the raDgemen for the money
u They owe. Most of them are in debt, snd
q q great many owe more than their herds
4 are worth and are hopeless Of payment,
! yet their notes are overdue End their
creditors demand money. To raise il
their cattle must be sold, even at the ru-
inous prices Which are being psid in the
n CpeU mGIhSG AOW' Do INC CsttlSAcu a1o
a shipping into the stockysrds ell the stock
hon their ranges for the purpose OF raising
Fxsady mqney-not only the beef steers,
bGFsHg cows and young calves are being
sacrifice :, and the owners do not realize
enough from their sales TO pay their
debts, even though they have destroyed
their range herds and brought themselves
TO poverty. -
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